TiMidity++(1)TiMidity++(1)NAME
TiMidity++ - MIDI to WAV converter and player
SYNOPSIStimidity [-options] filename [filenames ...]
DESCRIPTION
TiMidity++ is a converter that converts some of MIDI files ( formats :
Standard MIDI file (*.MID), Recomposer files (*.RCP, *.R36, *.G18,
*.G36) and Module file (*.mod) ) into formatted audio file (ex. RIFF
WAVE ). TiMidity uses Gravis Ultrasound-compatible patch files or
Soundfonts( *.sfx, *.sf2 ) to generate digital audio data from MIDI
files. The digital audio data generated by TiMidity can be stored in a
file for processing, or played in real time through an audio device.
In real time playing, TiMidity if able to show the lylic contained in
KAR file or WRD file.
FILENAME
You can use the following expressions in filename fields to specify the
location of the file:
- Read a MIDI file from standard input.
/path/filename
Read a MIDI file on filesystems.
dir:directory
directory/
Read and play all MIDI files in specified directory.
Archive File
Extracts and play the file(s) in the archive. If you want to
specify a certain MIDI file in the archive, describe the
#<MIDI-filename> expression following to the archive name. The
expressions after the # is allowed to use regular expressions
(case insensitive).
For Examples:
timidity 'file.zip#file.mid'
Plays file.mid in file.zip
timidity 'file.lzh#*.mid'
Plays any files that match the regular expression '*.mid'
in file.zip
timidity 'file.tgz#*'
This expression is same as
timidity 'file.tgz'
Since these mechanism are contained in TiMidity itself, you can
use it even if on MS Windows environment.
TiMidity can handle the following archive format:
tar (*.tar)
tar + gzip (*.tar.gz, *.tgz)
zip (*.zip)
(lh0, lh1, lh2, lh3, lh4, lh5, lh6, lzs, lz5, lz4 are
available)
news://news-server[:port]/Message-ID
news://news-server[:port]/newsgroup[/first-last]
Play the MIDI file in the specified article in news server. If
newsgroup is specified TiMidity plays (all) articles contains
MIDI files posted in the newsgroup.
In this case TiMidity recognize the MIME Multi-part message, and
extract the articles contains MIDI files and play.
The following MIME-type are allowed:
uu-encoded file
"begin" is required
base64 encoded
"Content-Transfer-Encoding base64" is required
quoted-string
"Content-Transfer-Encoding quoted-string" is required
Mac BinHex format
only 'HQX' format is available
http://url
ftp://url
Play the file specified these URLs.
For example:
"timidity http://www.goice.co.jp/mem‐
ber/mo/dist/midi/impromptu.mid"
plays MIDI-file via network.
If these expression are applied to the *.cfg files, you can use
patch-files or else on the remote machines.
INPUT FILE
Timidity can handle the following file formats:
.MID ( Format 0, 1, 2 )
Standard MIDI File
.RCP, .R36, .G18, .G36 ( formats of Recomposer (products of COME ON
MUSIC co.) )
Windows version converts these with rcpcv.dll.
.KAR ( Karaoke format )
Displays lylics same as Lylic Meta Event message.
.MOD, MOD.* ( module file )
.WRD ( WRD format )
OPTIONS
The following command line optinos are accepted by TiMidity:
-A amplification
Multiplies the master volume by amplification %. Default value
is 70%. The grater number of amplification makes louder sounds.
Range of the amplification is from 0 to 800%.
-a Turns on antialiasing. Samples are run through a lowpass fil‐
ter before playing, which reduces aliasing noise at low resam‐
pling frequencies.
-B fragments
For the Linux / FreeBSD / OSS / Windows sound driver, selects
the number of buffer fragments in interactive mode. Increas‐
ing the number of fragments may reduce choppiness when many
processes are running. It will make TiMidity seem to respond
sluggishly to fast forward, rewind, and volume controls, and
it will throw the status display off sync. Specify a fragments
of 0 to use the maximum number of fragments available.
-b mode
Enables pseudo surround effects. mode parameters are the fol‐
lowing:
-bl Sounds are comes mainly from left.
-br Sounds are comes mainly from right.
-bb Sounds are comes left and right in random.
-bc Disables this feature.
-C ratio
Sets the ratio of sampling and control frequencies. This deter‐
mines how often envelopes are recalculated -- small ratios
yield better quality but use more CPU time.
-c filename
Reads an extra configuration file.
-D channel
Marks channel as a drum channel. If channel is negative,
channel -channel is marked as an instru- mental channel. If
channel is 0, all channels are marked as instrumental.
-d dir Specifies the directory contains installed dynamic-link inter‐
face modules.
-e Make TiMidity evil. On Win32 version, this increases
the task priority by one. It can give better playback when
you switch tasks at the expense of slowing all other tasks
down.
-E mode
Set TiMidity extend modes. The following modes are available
(capitalized switch means disable this feature):
w/W Enables/disables modulation controlling.
p/P Enables/disables portamento controlling.
v/V Enables/disables NRPM vibration.
r/R Enables/disables reverb effect controlling.
c/C Enables/disables chorus effect controlling.
c ratio
Sets the chorus effect value of all channels to ratio.
s/S Enables/disables channel pressure controlling.
t/T Enables/disables tracing all Text Meta Events.
o/O Accepts/rejects pronouncing multiple same notes.
m HH Sets the manufacture ID to HH ( HH is the two hex-digits
).
In addition if HH is GM/gm , GS/gs or XG/xg that are
same as to 41 , 43 and 7e.
B bank Sets the bank number of all channels to bank.
-F Turns on fast panning to accommodate MIDI pieces that expect
panning adjustments to affect notes that are already
playing. Some files that don't expect this have a habit of
flipping balance rapidly between left and right, which can
cause severe popping when the -F flag is used.
In current versions of TiMidity this option are toggled.
-f Toggles fast envelopes. This option makes TiMidity do fast but
the release time of the notes are shorten.
-g sec Open the Sound-Spectrogram window. This option is activated if
the system has support for X Window System.
-h Show this help message.
-I voice[/c]
Uses the program number as the default instrument. Any Pro‐
gram Change events in MIDI files will override this option.
If the voice followed by /c the default program number of the
channel c is specified by the voice.
-i interface
Selects the user interfaces from the compiled-in alternatives.
interface must be begun with one of the supported interface
identifiers. Run TiMidity with the -h option to see a list.
The following identifiers may be available:
-id dumb interface
-in ncurses interface(old version)
-iN NEW ncurses interface
-is slang interface
-ia X Ahtena Widget interface
-ik Tcl/Tk interface
-im motif interface
-iT vt100 interface
-ie Emacs interface (press M-x timidity on Emacs)
-ii skin interface
Environment variable TIMIDITY_SKIN must be specified with
path of the skin data(compressed data are also avail‐
able).
Interface options
Option characters may be added immediately after the
interface identifier. The following options are recog‐
nized:
v Increases verbosity level. This option is cumulative.
q Decreases verbosity level. This option is cumulative.
t Toggles trace mode. In trace mode, TiMidity attempts
to display its current state in real time. For the
Linux sound driver, this is accomplished through the
use of short DMA buffer fragments, which can be tuned via
the -B option.
-j This option enables to load the patch file while playing.
-L directory
Adds directory to the library path. Patch, configuration, and
MIDI files are searched along this path. Directories added
last will be searched first. Note that the current direc‐
tory is always searched first before the library path.
-n degree
Enables Noise Shaping Filter. degree is from 0(min) to 4(max).
-O mode
Selects the output mode from the compiled-in alternatives. mode
must begin with one of the supported output mode identifiers.
Run TiMidity with the -h option to see a list. The follow‐
ing identifiers should be available in all versions:
-Od Outputs via audio device (default)
-Or Generate raw waveform data. All format options
are supported. Common formats include:
-OrU uLaw
-Or1sl 16-bit signed linear PCM
-Or8ul 8-bit unsigned linear PCM
-Ou Generate Sun Audio (au) file
-Oa Genetate AIFF file
-Ow Generate RIFF WAVE format output. If output is directed
to a non-seekable file, or if TiMidity is interrupted
before closing the file, the file header will contain
0xFFFFFFFF in the RIFF and data block length fields. The
popular sound conversion utility sox is able to read such
malformed files, so you can pipe data directly to sox for
on-the-fly conversion to other formats.
Format options
Option characters may be added immediately after the mode
identifier to change the output format. The following
options are recognized:
8 8-bit sample width
1 6-bit sample width
l Linear encoding
U uLaw (8-bit) encoding
M Monophonic
S Stereo
s Signed output
u Unsigned output
x Byte-swapped output
Note that some options have no effect on some modes. For exam‐
ple, you cannot generate a byte-swapped RIFF WAVE file, or force
uLaw output on a Linux PCM device.
-o filename
Place output on filename, which may be a file, device, or HP-UX
audio server, depending on the output mode selected with the -O
option. The special filename ``-'' causes output to be placed on
stdout.
-p voices
Sets polyphony (maximum number of simultaneous voices) to
voices.
-Q channel
Causes channel to be quiet. If channel is negative, channel
-channel is turned back on. If channel is 0, all channels are
turned on.
-R value
Enables Pseudo Reverb Mode. value are the following:
0 Long slight release
1 Long loud release
2 Short release
3 No release
-r This options causes another reverb effects.
-S size
Sets the re-sample cache size to size bytes. If size equals to
0 any sample caches are disabled. Default value of size is
2097152(2MB).
-s frequency
Sets the resampling frequency(Hz or kHz). Not all sound devices
are capable of all frequencies -- an approximate frequency may
be selected, depending on the implementation.
-t code
Sets output coding of Japanese text. code are the following:
auto determined by LANG environment variable.
ascii Transrates non-ascii code to period.
euc Outputs by EUC(Japan) coding.
jis Outputs by JIS coding.
sjis Outputs by SJIS coding.
-U Instructs TiMidity to unload all instruments from memory between
MIDI files. This can reduce memory requirements when playing
many files in succession.
-w mode
Extend mode for MS-Windows. The following options are available:
-wr Use rcpcv.dll to play RCP/R36 files.
-wR Not use rcpcv.dll (default).
-W mode
Play with WRD file. mode are the follwing:
x X Window System mode
t TTY mode
d Dumb mode (outputs WRD events directry)
- not traces WRD
WRD mode must be with trace mode(option -i?t) or timing of WRD events
are terrible.
-WR[opts]
Sets WRD options:
a1=b1,a2=b2, ...
Sets the WRD options. an is the name of option and bn is
the value.
d="n" Emulates timing(@WAIT,@WMODE) bugs of the original MIMPI
player. The emulate level is following:
-WRd=0 not emulates any bugs of MIMPI
-WRd=1 only emulates some bugs (default)
-WRd=2 emulates all known bugs
F="filename"
Uses filename as WRD file only (input-file-name):r.wrd
(like csh syntax) is not available.
f="filename"
Uses filername as WRD file.
-x string
Configure TiMidity by the string. The format of string is the
same as timidity.cfg.
For example:
-x'bank 0\n0 violin.pat'
Sets the instrument number 0 to violin.
Character \(Ascii 0x5c) in the string is treated as escape char‐
acter like C literal. For example \n is treated as carridge
return.
-Z file
Causes the table of frequencies to be read from file. This is
useful to define a tuning different from the occidental temper‐
ate scale.
SEE ALSOlsmidiprog(1), mididump(1), patinfo(1), sf2text(1), wav2pat(1), timid‐
ity.cfg(5)COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999 Masanao Izumo <mo@goice.co.jp> Copyright (C) 1995
Tuukka Toivonen <tt@cgs.fi>
Original version was developed under the name of Tuukka Toivonen
<tt@cgs.fi> until the version of TiMidity-0.2i. His development was
discontinued because of his busy work.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
AVAILABILITY
The latest release is available on the TiMidity++ Page,
URL http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/
BUGS
8-bit and low-rate output sounds worse than it should.
Eats more CPU time than a small CPU-time-eating animal.
This man page translated from Japanese to English by me with heavily
poor English skill :-)
AUTHORS
Version 0.2i and earlier:
Tuukka Toivonen <toivonen@clinet.fi>
Vincent Pagel <pagel@loria.fr>
Takashi Iwai <iwai@dragon.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Davide Moretti <dmoretti@iper.net>
Chi Ming HUNG <cmhung@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
Riccardo Facchetti <riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it>
TiMidity++:
IZUMO Masanao <mo@goice.co.jp>
HARADA Tomokazu <harada@prince.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
YAMATE Keiichirou <keiich-y@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
KIRYU Masaki <mkiryu@usa.net>
AOKI Daisuke <dai@y7.net>
MATSUMOTO Shoji <shom@i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
KOYANAGI Masaaki <koyanagi@okilab.oki.co.jp>
IMAI Kunihiko <imai@leo.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>
NOGAMI Takaya <t-nogami@happy.email.ne.jp>
WATANABE Takanori <takawata@shidahara1.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp>
TAKEKAWA Hiroshi <sian@big.or.jp>
NAGANO Daisuke <breeze.geo@geocities.co.jp>
YAMAHATA Isaku <yamahata@kusm.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
KINOSHITA kosuke <kino@krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp>
ARAI Yoshishige <ryo2@on.rim.or.jp>
Glenn Trigg <ggt@netspace.net.au>
and other many people sends information and bug-fix codes.
English version of this man page is written by NAGANO Daisuke
<breeze_geo@geocities.co.jp>.
If any comments or suggestions or claims :) about this man page you
have, please tell me it.
1.0.0 Jan 06 1999 TiMidity++(1)
